Formula 1: Daniel Ricciardo raced for Renault and McLaren after moving from Red Bull in 2018. The Australian driver struggled to give consistent performances in his current stint.
Ricciardo and Renault team principal Cyril Abiteboul had a bet that Abiteboul would get a tattoo of Ricciardo's choice if he could finish in the top three of a race this season, which he did at Eifel GP on Sunday.
Lewis Hamilton raised his voice against the 'injustice', writing a long note on his official Instagram profile.
Daniel Ricciardo will join the McLaren F1 team from 2021 season, signing a 'multi-year agreement'.
Ricciardo is among the world's highest-paid sportspeople, with a reported annual salary of $25 million.
Hamilton will start third, knowing he can let the Red Bull cars go off and running while he coasts his Mercedes to the finish line.
The Australian driver, who has won seven races since joining Red Bull in 2014, has agreed to a two-year deal with Renault.
Australian driver Daniel Ricciardo, who has won twice this season, will start Sunday's race at Hockenheim from the back of the grid.
Ricciardo said he had not directly spoken to rivals Ferrari and Mercedes, but he hedged when asked if his manager had.
Hamilton insisted that Ricciardo has been performing more consistently and breaking fewer cars in comparison to his team-mate Max Verstappen.
Ricciardo was also fastest in all three practice sessions and the Australian driver will be confident of securing his second win after victory last month in China.
Australian driver Ricciardo headed teammate Max Verstappen to a Red Bull one-two in both practice sessions at the Monaco Grand Prix.
The Mercedes duo of Valtteri Bottas — fastest in the first session — and defending champion Lewis Hamilton ranked fourth and fifth, respectively, in the second practice.
Ricciardo is out of contract at Red Bull at the end of the season and expressed interest in joining teams like Mercedes or Ferrari to help him challenge for the championship.
Ricciardo, however, said that if Red Bull continue to make a disappointing finish in every single race this year then he would have no other option but to leave.
Defending champion Lewis Hamilton was less than a tenth of a second behind Ricciardo with the slightly slower ultrasoft tyres on his Mercedes, followed by Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel.
The Australian has said that the highest class auto racing is a talk around who has the fastest car rather than the natural driving talent.
Despite Vettel leading the title chase for the first half of the Formula One championship, it was Hamilton who eventually took his fourth drivers' championship title.
It was a frustrating finale to a topsy-turvy year that saw Ricciardo finish fifth in the Formula One standings.
Verstappen thought he had a third-place finish in Texas before he was penalized for an improper last-lap pass and was taken off the podium.
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